WHO: Murray Cohen, a commercial pilot and volunteer fossil-hunter with the Perot Museum of Nature and Science, in Dallas, and the rest of the museum’s paleontology team. WHAT: A newly discovered plant-eating species of small dinosaur, Ampelognathus coheni, that lived in North Texas 96 million years ago.WHY IT’S SO GREAT: In September 2019, Murray Cohen, a pilot who volunteers with Dallas’s Perot Museum, was fossil-hunting on his own when he found a two-inch-long jawbone in a sandy area near Grapevine Lake’s spillway, about thirty miles northwest of downtown Dallas. He later handed the muddy bit of bone over to the Perot’s researchers, who cleaned it carefully under a microscope in a lab with miniature needles to get a better look. They thought at first that the…
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